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Who are the Tortured Poets?

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The Tortured Poets Department Taylor Swift Missa brevis Abbaye de Thélème Anika Kildegaard Composed & produced by Jack Antonoff, Aaron Dessner, and Taylor Swift Composed & produced by Jean-François Charles Fortnight, written by Taylor Swift , Jack Antonoff , and Austin Post The Tortured Poets Department, written by Taylor Swift & Jack Antonoff My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys, written by Taylor Swift Down Bad, written by Taylor Swift & Jack Antonoff So Long, London, written by Taylor Swift & Aaron Dessner But Daddy, I Love Him, written by Taylor Swift & Aaron Dessner Fresh Out The Slammer, written by Taylor Swift & Jack Antonoff Florida!!!, written by Taylor Swift & Florence Welch Guilty as Sin?, written by Taylor Swift & Jack Antonoff Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?, written by Taylor Swift ...

Interview on Metaclassique

David Christoffel is a composer, an author, and a radio producer. I was thrilled to be invited on his classical music program Metaclassique . We met in July in Paris. The program is now available (in French): Metaclassique #349 - Allier - electronic & acoustic music . We discussed the music from Jamshid Jam (duet with Ramin Roshandel) and my Electroclarinet series. On the program Collaborations between electronic and acoustic music are laboratories for musical forms that are invented through timbre alloys. A three-part journey with Patrick-Astrid Defossez , Jean-François Charles , and co-composers Olivier Delevingne and Benoît Menut .

From Polarity to Plurality Concert

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Monday, October 6, 7:30pm, Voxman Building, Opera Studio My colleague professor Matthew Arndt emcees the first of seven presentations of an intergalactic music poetics. As he says: " Drawing together ancient wisdom and modern science, this poetics aims at transmuting one’s experience of everything as music and living joyfully even as we work confidently toward an abundant future. " I am thrilled that Matthew Arndt invited me to curate the second part of the evening with compositions of mine. I am also thrilled that brilliant minds and artists from Iowa City are joining me on stage! Program Matthew Arndt presents the première of a video episode produced by Rabalais Productions with artisan animation by Auden Lincoln-Vogel. Legit , for trombone & live electronics, with Jonathan Allen Jamshid Jam & guest, for setar & live electronics with guest spoken word artist, with Ramin Roshandel and Jhe Russell Première of Montagne Pelée , for solo baritone saxop...